BAGnewsNotes: Fly E.P.A.

BAGnewsNotes: Fly E.P.A.: "Nice to see a C-130 doing something than hauling quantities of Ecstasy back from Germany, as it were recently in Newburgh, NY. They fly over the former Holiday Inn, now Clarion, I was staying in digging hundreds of holes on just over the west perimeter of West Point Military Academy and the other next to Kiryas Joel, NY a Talmudic Jewish settlement, which with savvy worthy of Solomon may have brought the aqueduct to the neighborhood."
By that I meant, according to the local press, which is quite good up there around Harriman, (after Averell Harriman's family he was a "United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986)" an urban policy college at Stony Brook University once named after him, and nearby Museum Village, near Monroe, NY. President Monroe, was a famous NY resident after his Presidency. Sometime after his death, the Virginia legislature voted to have him removed from a marble vault in the secular Bowery cemetery and interred in Hollywood Cemetery in Virginia, at which, the transfer to ship, the whole City of New York turned out for in respect, before the Civil War. The regional press, which is also good, reported that a municipality has to show it can supply water when the aqueduct can't. A "Catch 22", you have to have the water to get the water.
Kiryas Joel, a community of Talmudic scholars and their families, bought a fairly large industrial site, seen from the NY Thruway and along another road, as formerly "Star" manufacturers, reported to have made hardware "nuts" (or bolts?) for $1000, taking over the mortgage and hazardous waste problems that had been stalling its sale. Its other location, has two large wells that can pump 300,000 gallons of water per day, so they could meet the "catch 22" criteria ("Catch 22" author Heller, in his last book, considers writing a novel about his wife's sex life, in "Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man" but instead talks about women in history and literature).

A 20 mile long pipeline could be connected to the north, to the Catskill aqueduct, running roughly west to east in Newburgh, NY. Newburgh is, "A town on the Hudson River in New York; in 1782 and 1783 it was George Washington's headquarters" and also the name of an infamous thwarted "Newburgh Conspiracy" to make George Washington "King" according to New York Senator Hillary Clinton, who also sponsored the "Purple Heart" stamp in the U.S. Post Office. They were "celebrating" the "Purple Heart" at the New Windsor Cantonment while we were nearby and the British Duke of Windsor got remarried. After the Revolutionary War and American Independence, our troops stayed bivouacking for a time after the treaty was signed, just in case the other side was not going to honor it. A tough winter followed molecular archaeology has shown and some historical archaeologists once had a meeting there (the Council for Northeastern Historical Archaeology, CNEHA, of which I am a member). More years ago than I care to admit, and before it was anything more than a parking lot, I camped there in a pup-tent with my Lake Grove Explorers Post 222, (Wing Street School) in the snow (got down to 9 degrees F) on a cancelled winter "jamboree" that the Boy Scouts were supposed to show up at. Not bringing food to be supplied we had bologna and ketchup sandwiches.